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    The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet
    The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet
    The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet
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    The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet

    By Harry Stephen Keeler

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    The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJan 26, 2019
    ISBN9781479449057
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